Liches

[phooney]

Hi there,

I'd been playing Nethack for a while and wanted to try Slash'em for the excitement of all the new monsters and items etc.

So far I'm finding it much harder, which is a good thing!  One major problem I'm having, though, is Liches.  Nothing I do seems to touch them.  At the moment I've got a Valkyrie two weaponing a blessed Excalibur and a blessed silver sabre, and when i hit a Lich it just tells me that my attack didn't seem to harm the lich.  Meanwhile they're summoning all kinds of things and cursing my stuff.

Any tips?

[xkernigh]

phooney wrote:
> At the
> moment I've got a Valkyrie two weaponing a blessed Excalibur and a
blessed
> silver sabre, and when i hit a Lich it just tells me that my attack
didn't
> seem to harm the lich.  Meanwhile they're summoning all kinds of
things and
> cursing my stuff.

You play well! I always die in slashem before I can find any lich.

Yes, lich is hard to hit. I looked up "lich" in the slashem bestiary
for you. The result was at
http://slashem.crash-override.net/bestiary/lich.html

There it says: "needs +2 weapon to hit". You need to be enchanting your
weapons. If your Excalibur was at least +2 then your attacks should
have worked.

The weapon enchantment is both a to-hit bonus and a to-damage bonus.
Now normally your #enhanced weapon skills, plus Excalibur's artifact
to-hit bonus, would let you hit anything! But slashem added the "needs
+n weapon to hit" restriction on a few monsters, so you have to enchant
your weapons. This is one complication that vanilla nethack players
never worried about.

But if you had hit, then the fact that you had a second weapon and they
both were blessed should have caused extra damage to that annoying
undead lich.

--Kernigh
  http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/User:Kernigh



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[phooney]

You play well! I always die in slashem before I can find any lich.

Yes, lich is hard to hit. I looked up "lich" in the slashem bestiary
for you. The result was at
http://slashem.crash-override.net/bestiary/lich.html

There it says: "needs +2 weapon to hit". You need to be enchanting your
weapons. If your Excalibur was at least +2 then your attacks should
have worked.

Yep, that would have been it, it was a long time before I managed to identify the enchant weapon scroll.  Unfortunately I somehow managed to get myself butted to death by a mastodon in a zoo of some sort, they hit HARD!